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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Government Austerity Hypocrisy

Governments often say that unionized works have it too good and need to accept cutbacks. I say them first! Below is a posting from Facebook by Clayton Bromleythat demonstrates just where the cutbacks should come from. MPs are civil servants and should be treated as such. Their pensions are insane and are draining the system of millions of dollars a year. They should be treated like any other government worker, not elected royalty. Politicians are the ones who need to accept pay cuts and loss of benefits. Until they do they have no right to criticize those who unionized and fought for what they get.

Currently
a Canadian MP earns a base salary of $155,400.00. The Prime Minister
earns an additional $155,400 (total of $310,800.00), a cabinet Minister
earns an additional 74,400 as does the Leader of the Opposition and the
Speaker of the House (total of $229,800.00). There are other allowances
such as car and rent that are given as well. Members who occupy certain
offices and positions are entitled to additional remuneration in
accordance with the Parliament of Canada Act such as Parliamentary
Secretary, Party whips, other party House Leaders, Deputy House Leaders,
etc.

To
qualify for a pension, you have to serve as a member of Parliament for a
mere six years. A backbencher with six years on the job who retired at
the end of this year would receive an annual pension of $27,213 once he
or she turns 55…

… If the MP sticks around for another four years, his or her pension hits $43,355 a year.

…
For you and me to receive and equivalent payout in retirement we would
have to put $80,000 into our RRSPs each year for 10 years.

..The
average MP who is eligible to collect a parliamentary pension takes in a
very comfortable $49,985 a year. In fact, there are 70 ex-MPs who
collect more than $70,000 a year.

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The Pündi are a race from my fantasy novels, the Continuum Chronicles, an exploration of spiritual evolution theory. Appearing like us, they are really child-sized aliens cursed by their own intelligence, trapped as observers unable to share their knowledge. They often develop an individual obsessive interest.

I write and publish, not selling anything, just trying to share ideas that might profit everyone. I aim not for originality but creativity, organizing what exists to generate new associations. I'm a writer with thick glasses and autism, familiar with the struggle for clarity. Novelist, researcher, internet activist, spiritual evolutionist, and process philosopher, I believe in democratic social capitalism with a well-regulated engine of sustainable markets. As a writer, I find that most blockages tend to be improvements trying to occur to me.